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Hey!<br><br>Please don&#39;t remove my membership application from the binder; I&#39;m not done having it there! I expect to have you read my name aloud at every single Noisebridge meeting lest you 1) go about your days trying to forget me, 2) were unaware of who the jicama I was/am, and 3) may at some point be moved to clamour loudly for my perennial presence. CLAMOUR LOUDER, I can&#39;t hear you in the Northern Northernlands to the North. I love you all dearly, admire and applaud you from afar, and am always put at heart&#39;s ease by your gentle bickering, flickering of pixels, human-readable digits. But love is not binary! Keep me in your gray area for at least another year!<br>

&gt; <br>&gt; Hey guys,<br>&gt; <br>&gt; I discovered last night that we have no process for removing pages<br>&gt; from the membership binder if they&#39;re old or their membership gets<br>&gt; blocked. Our current process says if the name has been in the binder &gt;<br>

&gt; 4 weeks it can be brought up for membership at any meeting, even if<br>&gt; it&#39;s been blocked in the past or is super old. I propose that we add a<br>&gt; process to remove pages from the binder if they&#39;ve been blocked, or<br>

&gt; have more than 10 check marks on them. Here&#39;s my reasoning:<br>&gt; <br>&gt; 1) If a person&#39;s membership is blocked, they can either accept that<br>&gt; decision, or re-submit their name for membership and wait another four<br>

&gt; weeks before their name comes up for consensus again. This gives the<br>&gt; blocked person time to allay any fears that others may have about<br>&gt; their membership.<br>&gt; 1.a) It also provides time for any parties interested in that person&#39;s<br>

&gt; membership to express their concerns at any meeting in those four<br>&gt; weeks and limit the hassle and drama that could come from the name<br>&gt; coming up at a meeting without enough attendees to argue both sides.<br>

&gt; (Sneaking the membership through by exploiting the process)<br>&gt; 1.b) It also serves as a reminder that this person is still attempting<br>&gt; to join noisebridge, if indeed they re-submit their name for<br>&gt; membership.<br>

&gt; <br>&gt; 2) If a membership application has been in the binder for 10<br>&gt; consecutive weeks without that person either attending a membership<br>&gt; meeting, or asking for a proxy to represent them, their membership<br>

&gt; application should be considered expired and purged from the binder.<br>&gt; This relates to point 1a above, is good housekeeping, and helps ensure<br>&gt; names only come up for consensus if they&#39;re active in the space.<br>